With equities at all time highs, how do you stay BUY rated on stocks?

Say you cover Microsoft and your fundamental analysis gives a TP of $XX. But with general capital rotation into equities you are now within a few % of that TP, without any material change or catalyst to MSFT itself to justify the stock price appreciation. How do you address this? Go neutral? Find a way to up the TP?

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